Chicago postal history
Subtitle: selections that honor the collecting interest of Richard McP. Cabeen.
By: Harvey M. Karlen, editor.
Contributors: Cabeen, Richard McP.
Publisher: Collectors Club of Chicago
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Postal service -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Table of contents: title: Richard McPherren Cabeen, 1887-1969, by A. Salm.; title: Chicago: its postal history, by R. McP. Cabeen.; title: Stampless covers, by H. M. Karlen.; title: 1847 covers from Chicago, by H. M. Karlen.; title: The Chicago perforation, by H. M. Karlen.; title: Advertised markings, by H. M. Karlen.; title: Chicago postal markings 1860 to 1865, by R. McP. Cabeen.; title: The demonetization of stamps and stamped envelopes at the Chicago Post Office during the early months of the Civil War, by R. McP. Cabeen.; title: The patriotic response 1861-1865, by H. M. Karlen.; title: Camp Douglas and its Civil War letters, by R. McP. Cabeen.; title: Chicago double circle and local postmarks with initials, by R. B. Graham.; title: Chicago supplementary mail cancellations, by H. M. Karlen.; title: Independent mails, local posts and express services associated with Chicago, by H. M. Karlen.; title: Chicago and postal waterways mail markings, by H. M. Karlen.; title: Chicago and the handling of foreign mail, by H. M. Karlen.; title: Chicago into the 1870's, by H. M. Karlen.; title: City postmarks and post office expansion, by H. M. Karlen.